Breeze On

We have spent the past two days as tourists in Baltimore. Yesterday’s forecast predicted thunderstorms throughout the day so we were delighted that the rain held off until the afternoon, enabling us to go out and about before the storms arrived. We first walked over to a nearby Safeway for a few groceries. Along the way we passed a really interesting device  (Professor Trash Wheel)  that picks up trash out of the harbor. It seems to work well, the area where it was located was free of trash, but the areas next to it had quite a bit of trash.  Next we took an Uber to the Walters Art Museum in the Mount Vernon section of town. The museum is free with four floors filled with art. After spending a few hours there we walked a block to see the George Washington Monument. After ducking back inside the museum for a few minutes to wait out a small rain storm, we walked south to the Inner Harbor. Along the way we passed a Burger King so we stopped to split an Impossible Burger. I have been curio

We are taking advantage of a brief break in the oppressively hot and humid weather by taking Breeze On to Baltimore Harbor. We left home yesterday morning and motored 54 nm in light winds, anchoring in Rock Creek, just inside the mouth of the Patapsco River. This morning we motored the remaining 9 miles to the Anchorage Marina, near Fells Point and the Inner Harbor. Along the way we encountered all manor of water craft: an unpainted metal boat that may have once been a military boat; a cargo ship carrying cars; tug boats; a pilot boat; two coast guard boats; and a barge with a crane. We passed  under the Key Bridge and  by Fort McHenry. The Anchorage Marina is an enormous marina associated with a large townhouse complex. Most of the slips are private but a few are rented out to transients like us. It has floating docks (nice) with full fingers on each side of the slip (even nicer). There is a floating pool built into a dock a few slips down from us.  Today is George’s birthday so we we